Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

Most style is not honest enough.